Comments on: Red Line 7000 http://www.nascarracingclub.com/red-line-7000 Fri, 03 Feb 2012 13:04:58 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: admin http://www.nascarracingclub.com/red-line-7000/comment-page-1#comment-1933 admin Tue, 08 Dec 2009 12:30:30 +0000 http://www.nascarracingclub.com/red-line-7000#comment-1933 <p></p><p>- Hide quoted text -- Show quoted text -</p>On Wed, 5 Apr 2000 16:10:34 GMT, Bill <maxx...@earthlink.net> wrote: <br /> >    There was an old movie on last night that I had seen at the theater <br /> >when I was 10 years old. For some reason I remembered it being about <br /> >Indy cars, but it was stock cars. Actually, I only remembered one scene, <br /> >an early scene where a driver pegs his tach to to a whopping 7500 rpm <br /> >and blows an oil line (?), spins the car and dies in a fiery crash. I <br /> >really didn't even remember the crash, just the oil line, which must <br /> >mean that I was a gearhead from birth and didn't know it. Anyway, I <br /> >cackled like an idiot through the whole thing. My substantially younger <br /> >wife laughed at me, but really didn't get it until someone put 30 cents <br /> >in a cigarette machine (in a bar, no less). The movie was, of course, <br /> >incredibly hokey and was about as technically correct as we've come to <br /> >expect from racing movies, but there is a bunch of vintage stock car <br /> >footage, even 30 second pit stops where they jack the car off the ground <br /> >about 3 feet and unscrew a gas cap. Richard Petty (at about age 25) has <br /> >a cameo, no lines, just inside the car facial expressions. If you're <br /> >over 40, or maybe not, you really need to see this, but not when you <br /> >have anything else to do. <br /> <br />Heck "Drag Strip Girl" was on AMC Tues, too. Daytona and Petty clips. <br /> Fun:) <br />

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On Wed, 5 Apr 2000 16:10:34 GMT, Bill <maxx…@earthlink.net> wrote:
>    There was an old movie on last night that I had seen at the theater
>when I was 10 years old. For some reason I remembered it being about
>Indy cars, but it was stock cars. Actually, I only remembered one scene,
>an early scene where a driver pegs his tach to to a whopping 7500 rpm
>and blows an oil line (?), spins the car and dies in a fiery crash. I
>really didn’t even remember the crash, just the oil line, which must
>mean that I was a gearhead from birth and didn’t know it. Anyway, I
>cackled like an idiot through the whole thing. My substantially younger
>wife laughed at me, but really didn’t get it until someone put 30 cents
>in a cigarette machine (in a bar, no less). The movie was, of course,
>incredibly hokey and was about as technically correct as we’ve come to
>expect from racing movies, but there is a bunch of vintage stock car
>footage, even 30 second pit stops where they jack the car off the ground
>about 3 feet and unscrew a gas cap. Richard Petty (at about age 25) has
>a cameo, no lines, just inside the car facial expressions. If you’re
>over 40, or maybe not, you really need to see this, but not when you
>have anything else to do.

Heck "Drag Strip Girl" was on AMC Tues, too. Daytona and Petty clips.
Fun:)

]]> By: admin http://www.nascarracingclub.com/red-line-7000/comment-page-1#comment-1934 admin Tue, 08 Dec 2009 12:30:30 +0000 http://www.nascarracingclub.com/red-line-7000#comment-1934 You know, I have yet to see a "Good" movie about stock car racing. Days of <br /> Thunder was close, but not believable in the aspect of all that intentional <br /> bumping. Not even DE would get away with that! <br /> brad <brad...@scratchthistiac.net> wrote in message <br /> <br />news:38ebd8b1.13845616@news.tiac.net... <br /> <p>- Hide quoted text -- Show quoted text -</p>> On Wed, 5 Apr 2000 16:10:34 GMT, Bill <maxx...@earthlink.net> wrote: <br /> <p>> > There was an old movie on last night that I had seen at the theater <br /> > >when I was 10 years old. For some reason I remembered it being about <br /> > >Indy cars, but it was stock cars. Actually, I only remembered one scene, <br /> > >an early scene where a driver pegs his tach to to a whopping 7500 rpm <br /> > >and blows an oil line (?), spins the car and dies in a fiery crash. I <br /> > >really didn't even remember the crash, just the oil line, which must <br /> > >mean that I was a gearhead from birth and didn't know it. Anyway, I <br /> > >cackled like an idiot through the whole thing. My substantially younger <br /> > >wife laughed at me, but really didn't get it until someone put 30 cents <br /> > >in a cigarette machine (in a bar, no less). The movie was, of course, <br /> > >incredibly hokey and was about as technically correct as we've come to <br /> > >expect from racing movies, but there is a bunch of vintage stock car <br /> > >footage, even 30 second pit stops where they jack the car off the ground <br /> > >about 3 feet and unscrew a gas cap. Richard Petty (at about age 25) has <br /> > >a cameo, no lines, just inside the car facial expressions. If you're <br /> > >over 40, or maybe not, you really need to see this, but not when you <br /> > >have anything else to do. <br /> </p><p>> Heck "Drag Strip Girl" was on AMC Tues, too. Daytona and Petty clips. <br /> > Fun:) <br /> <br /> </p> You know, I have yet to see a "Good" movie about stock car racing. Days of
Thunder was close, but not believable in the aspect of all that intentional
bumping. Not even DE would get away with that!
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> On Wed, 5 Apr 2000 16:10:34 GMT, Bill <maxx…@earthlink.net> wrote:

> > There was an old movie on last night that I had seen at the theater
> >when I was 10 years old. For some reason I remembered it being about
> >Indy cars, but it was stock cars. Actually, I only remembered one scene,
> >an early scene where a driver pegs his tach to to a whopping 7500 rpm
> >and blows an oil line (?), spins the car and dies in a fiery crash. I
> >really didn’t even remember the crash, just the oil line, which must
> >mean that I was a gearhead from birth and didn’t know it. Anyway, I
> >cackled like an idiot through the whole thing. My substantially younger
> >wife laughed at me, but really didn’t get it until someone put 30 cents
> >in a cigarette machine (in a bar, no less). The movie was, of course,
> >incredibly hokey and was about as technically correct as we’ve come to
> >expect from racing movies, but there is a bunch of vintage stock car
> >footage, even 30 second pit stops where they jack the car off the ground
> >about 3 feet and unscrew a gas cap. Richard Petty (at about age 25) has
> >a cameo, no lines, just inside the car facial expressions. If you’re
> >over 40, or maybe not, you really need to see this, but not when you
> >have anything else to do.

> Heck "Drag Strip Girl" was on AMC Tues, too. Daytona and Petty clips.
> Fun:)

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